Fire Alarm System Maintenance provides the safety and comfort in knowing that your system works. When your fire system fails, it may go unnoticed until an event occurs and the system fails to notify the building occupants. These failures can result in loss of property or even loss of life. A second dangerous condition that results from a lack of fire system maintenance is false alarms. Frequent false alarms cause the occupants to ignore the sounding alarms and to think its “ Just another false alarm”. This causes the occupants to react improperly to a sounding fire alarm. Recent events and studies have found that when a fire does occur in a building with frequent false alarms, critical seconds are lost in a timely evacuation of a building. Even the best system can have problems or fail if not properly inspected, tested and maintained. Your fire system is governed by local codes that require this testing and maintenance. These codes are based and established on standards developed by the National Fire Protection Association or NFPA.